It was known that they stretched down the declivities on the mountainsides like rivers of ice; that the end in the valley melted in the summer and refroze in the winter; that in advancing and retreating at the valley end, the glaciers scraped rocks, since the pebbles frozen into the bottom of the glaciers gouged striations into those rocks.

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